Authentication opensuse in Windows Domain

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Hi everybody,

I’m trying in the company where I work to persuade my co-partners to move slowly into the world of linux, but because everything are set up on Windows is quite difficult. Though I can install at least in one PC openSuse or Ubuntu (I prefer openSuse), but the problem is that I have to find a way to make the authentication to a Windows Domain, which is running Windows Server 2003.

How is this possible? Is this procedure painless or I have to read a lot of staffs in order to make it work? I would be obliged if you could give me some steps on how to do it.

Thanks in Advance

P.S. Please help me because I can’t stand windows any more :stuck_out_tongue:

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No windows for me, so the best I can do is this link for now: Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1

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It’s very simple to make openSUSE authenticate against AD natively. In fact, of all the major distros, it’s the easiest to setup (I’ve tried all of them).

  1. Go to Yast->Network Services->Windows Domain Membership
  2. It may ask to install Samba packages…let it.

When the Windows Domain Membership dialog appears

  1. Type in the domain name in the top text box
  2. Check the box that says: Also Use SMB Information for Linux Authentication
  3. Check Create Home Directory on Login
  4. Check Offline Authentication (this is more important for laptops)
  5. Click OK
  6. It will ask to join the computer to the domain, click on Yes.
  7. Type in your administrator user name and password then click OK.

Now, re-boot the system and when the login screen comes up it should have a text box for user name, password and a drop down box to select your domain (at least KDE does). I believe with Gnome (I don’t normally use Gnome) it only has text boxes for user name and password. You have to enter your user name like this: DOMAIN_NAME\user.

You may also want to use your PDC as an NTP server. This takes care of any clock skew issues you may run in to.

Hope this helps!

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I really thanks…I 'll try it and I will inform you

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At first I was having a hard time installing it but this guide helped me real well.

Open Interop: Authenticate To Active Directory

I just can’t get the WINDOWS AD Login during the installation of SUSE to work.

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Hello,

we have a little problem. Our DC/AD is a Windows 2003 R2 Server. We have Set all Linux attributes (RFC2307). We tried Kerberos and Ldap and worked fine for workstation who do not need offline login. but with our laptops we tried samba winbind and this does not work. So we tried the implemented versionof Opensuse 11.2 and it worked for login ins and so on, but it do not get the correct UID/GID from AD. Is there any solution possible?

Kind regards